To understand everything is to forgive everything.

The mind that sees its own nature becomes free from all extremes.

A pure mind is always full of love - real love for all others.

If you want to know your past life, look at your present condition. If you want to know your future life, look at your present actions.

Even if you speak of 'understanding,' this understanding is not a matter of knowledge. It is what fills the entire body and mind.

Each moment of mindfulness is a moment of purification.

The force of the kindness of others is so strong, we can't possibly measure it.

True happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through cultivation of altruism, of love, of compassion.

One moment can change a day, one day can change a life, and one life can change the world.

The practice of patience guards us against losing our presence of mind.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax.

Meditation is not about achieving anything. It's about letting go of everything.

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

The first step toward faith is to admit that we don't know everything.

Meditation is like catching a fish. If you try to catch it quickly, you'll miss it. If you have patience and know how to wait, the fish will come.

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts.

The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.

Meditation is not an escape from reality but a way to understand reality as it truly is.

The teaching is simple: act with kindness and compassion. If you cannot do this, at least try not to harm others.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Awareness is always with us. We don't need to create it or achieve it - we just need to recognize what's already there.

The practice of mindfulness is simply to bring awareness to what we are doing, what we are saying, and what we are thinking.

Try to be mindful and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.

Forgiveness is giving up all hope for a better past.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

When you listen to someone, you should give up all your preconceived ideas and your subjective opinions.

The practice of Dharma is a constant battle within oneself.

Where there is great doubt, there is great awakening; small doubt, small awakening; no doubt, no awakening.

The mind is intrinsically empty. It's empty of all that we perceive as being intrinsically "me" and "mine."

The Buddha's teaching is a middle way between all extremes, between eternalism and annihilationism, between self-indulgence and self-torture.